Adelajda Zhgaba Medical Ethics PHL 211 Ethical considerations in chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients 1. Would it be ethically concerning to accept refusal of chemotherapy treatment from cancer patients‚ more importantly from teenagers diagnosed with this disease? According to the National Cancer Institute‚ approximately 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year and 7.6 million of them die from this disease. People usually undergo chemotherapy‚ radiation therapy‚
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A1. Introduction/Potential Ethical Dilemmas Jamilah Shah arrived at the hospital after collapsing. Once testing was completed‚ it was determined that Jamilah suffered from a heart attack. A decision regarding whether further treatment is going to be done needs to be made quickly‚ but before a decision can be made‚ all aspects of her health and quality of life need to be assessed/considered. Many potential ethical dilemmas exist in this situation. These include disagreeing opinions between the healthcare
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What approaches should be utilized to understand juvenile justice and the ethical dilemmas that arise within the condition? Juvenile delinquency in the United States‚ because of its prominence on rehabilitation and the best interest of children‚ has become an increasingly compound subject (Ramirez‚ 2008). Some causes of delinquency include poverty‚ drugs‚ gangs‚ abuse and neglect‚ and truancy (Ramirez‚ 2008). In addition‚ violent juvenile crimes led to an increase in the waiver of many young offenders
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The ethical dilemma proposed in this case study involves a psychologist who purposefully miscodes a client’s clinical diagnosis while billing the insurance for services since half of the patient’s clinical diagnosis is often declined for payment by the insurance company. While the therapist was only trying to help the patient out by saving them money by getting the insurance company to pay for all the services provided‚ the psychologist was unethical in not disclosing all the appropriate information
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Taking a life is against the ethical principle of nurses which is nonmaleficence‚ where they would not prefer taking care of that particular patient or might assist the patient with resentment which in turn hinder the nurse from providing a quality care to the patient. Secondly abortion
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John is under great distress and great pain understandably speaking and although we respect and honor his decision there is an ethical dilemma to the lethal treatment he so desperately seeks. First‚ we must address the Hippocratic Oath of our doctors who administered an oath to not take part in suicide or killings of their patience. There is a moral and ethical dilemma in a physician’s direct action that leads to the death of their patient‚ even if the individual state has allowed such practice
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supervising physician (Dr.Yarnell) for different medical conditions while prescribing multiple controlled substances. Legal standards provide vague ethical guidance regarding this issue and leave a lot of blank spaces open for clinician interpretation. In Dr.Yarnell and PA Brian’s case there were numerous ethical dilemmas that can be examined under the four ethical principles of medicine: beneficence‚ nonmaleficence‚ respect for autonomy‚ and justice.
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especially if it involves healthcare advances‚ typically have an ethical dilemma. However the ethical dilemma may be seen‚ the benefit for human lives as a whole can seen as the most important aspect of all research and studies that relate to the good of mankind. With that‚ the growing of organs is a essential need for people as the demand for organs grow and the availability of human organs are extremely low. Although the ethical dilemma of growing organs is still in a debatable discussion period‚
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Ethical Dilemmas: Euthanasia Is euthanasia‚ or assisted suicide‚ humane? Should it be accepted in the medical world? Euthanasia is a very serious ethical dilemma faced in modern health care. Euthanasia is mostly a matter of opinion‚ and has different meanings to different people. In my opinion‚ there are many good arguments supporting euthanasia but I believe euthanasia should be ignored. I would personally never be able to perform euthanasia on someone‚ I would feel too guilty‚ but not everyone
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Should we as healthcare professionals‚ deliberately cause harm to a fetus to maintain the autonomy of the mother? Is it just to deny complete autonomy to the mother while simultaneously denying justice and autonomy to a potential life? From a virtue ethical prospective‚ the answers to the difficult questions and actions taken depend on the innate moral values of the individual. For example‚ a Christian would derive their moral values from the Bible which describes life as preconceived before physical
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